Merchants of Andromeda + Bureaucrats & Anarchists Expansion

The Senate voting mechanic is such a clever twist—it makes every bid feel like a real political gamble, and the expansion adds just the right amount of chaos to the ship combat. We’ve played four rounds in a row and the tension never dipped once.

The bidding on space goods adds some nice tension, but the rulebook is a bit of a slog to get through before your first play. We got through a game in about two hours with four players, and the ship combat feels tacked on rather than essential. It's fun enough, just not the space politics epic I was